Improved meat and vegetable cutter



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

E. P. WHITNEY,v OF STAMFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED MEAT AND VEGETABLE CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 56,305, dated July 10, 1866.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, E. P. WHITNEY, of

Stamford, in the county of Faireld and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and Improved Meat Slicer and Vegetable- Cutter; and I do hereby declare that the `following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying` drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a back ,elevation of the device. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken on the plane of the line cc w, Fig. '1.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention is designed for slicing dried and smoked meats and all kinds of vegetables.

My invention consists in the arrangement' of two (more or less) knives set with their blades in opposite directions to each other, and used in connection with set-screws, which enable them to be adjusted accordingly as it may be desired to have the thickness of the slice. Also, in the employment, in combination with such knives, of lances or sharp points, which, while the knives are cutting the slice, serve to separate or cu-t the same in an opposite direction.

To enable others to understand my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents a disk, which may be made of metal or wood, as desired. At its center it is secured t0 a shaft, B, which has its bearings in a bracket, C, and which carries a crank, a, by which to revolve the disk, the said bracket carrying at the end ot each of its arms a clamp, I), and thumb-screw c, by which the device can be quickly secured to a table or the like when it is desired to use it.

D D are two blades, which are fitted to rest on the surface of beveled slots made through the disk A, like the blade of .a plane through the plane-stock, and in opposite directions to each other. Thus, while the one is cutting downward the other will be cutting upward, and so two slices will be cut by one revolution ofthe wheel and, inasmuch as both the upward and downward cut are made at the same time, the article being sliced is held much more firmly. These blades or knives D D have cut in them slots d cl, whose direction is transversely to that of the blades, and these slots are provided with set-screws c c. By means of these slots and set-screws the distances of the blade beyond the face of the disk can be regulated, and consequently t-he'thickness of the slice.

E are the lances or points before referred to. In the presentinstance they are merely screws with sharp points arranged in front of the blades B and made capable of being withdrawn entirely if smoked me'at is to be cut, or of being thrown out it' some vegetable, such as cabbage, is to be cut.. (See Fig. 2.) Their office is to cut the cabbage in a different direction from the cutters D, and thus reduce the same to tine pieces. There maybe as many as desired of these lances or points, though in the drawings I have shown only two before each blade.

This is a simple device for the purpose for which it is intended, and can be easily operated, and answers for shaving beef and other smoked meats, as well as for cutting or slicing all kinds of vegetables. 

